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Google Arms Cyber Nannies with Spcial Access Codes to Report Predators on Orkut
Google’s Brazilian subsidiary is cooperating with the Brazilian E-Commerce Chamber by creating special access codes to enable local non-governmental organizations (NGOs) to report pedophilia and child pornography on Orkut.The Brazilian E-Commerce Chamber is an Internet company that has set out to identify and report Orkut users that are posting illegal content on their profiles [...]

Where Ive Been Moves OnFrom Facebook to MySpace
Where I’ve Been, which is among the top 30 Facebook applications overall and is the top app for travel, has launched an interactive map widget for MySpace. You may remember Where I’ve Been as the application that was thought to have been acquired for $3 million.Following the success of its Facebook Application, [...]

T-Works: Warner Bros Launching Social Network for Toons
MySpace’s Tom is out, but Tweety Bird, Bugs Bunny, Scooby Doo, Batman and the Flintstones are in. Warner Bros has just announced plans to launch a social network for its cartoon characters, including the Looney Tunes cast, the DC Comics lineup, the Flintstones and many more. The site will be called T-Works and [...]

Multiply Raises $16.6 Million More
The money is still pouring in for social networks, with Multiply taking an addition $16.6 million. The money came from VantagePoint Venture Partners, while Point Judith Capital and return investor Transcosmos Investments also joined in. (Transcosmos gave Multiply $5 million in the Series A round, with $1 million coming from the founders). [...]

NoteSake Supports All Launguages & Exports to Word
NoteSake, the note-taking and organization tool, has added two new features to improve its service.Language support has been added, so now NoteSake supports Russian, Spanish, Latin and more, letting you take notes in any language you need to. You can also export your notes to PDF and Microsoft Word, making your notes easier to [...]

AOL Acquisition of Tacoda Behavioral Ad Network Complete
AOL has officially completed the acquisition of Tacoda, the online advertising network that works on behavioral targeting.The initial announcement for this acquisition happened earlier this year, in late July. While the financial details were not disclosed, estimates infer that the amount was between $200 million and $300 million. Tacoda will remain a wholly owned [...]

GoodReads Hits 5 Million Books & Launches Interactive Widget
GoodReads, the social network for books, has hit a couple of major milestone, and has also added a new feature for sharing your favorite books.With 5 million books added to the site, and another 300,000 members in the community, GoodReads is growing at a healthy rate since its launch in January of this year. [...]

The Inevitable Merging of MyBlogLog & Yahoo Accounts
MyBlogLog is getting ready to further integrate with Yahoo, merging the two accounts. This will of course simplify login issues for MyBlogLog, and is an expected procedure for Yahoo subsidiaries. The merge is expected to take place around this time of the week.You will need to re-upload your avatar image as MyBlogLog will [...]

Amazon Tweaks Site for Better Navigation
Amazon.com has just tweaked its website, offering better navigation options for the site. The biggest difference you’ll notice is the menus that pull up when you hover over certain menu items in the tool bar. The department menu that pulls up is probably the most helpful, as this acts as a grounding factor [...]

Habbo Holding Film Awards in Virtual World
Habbo, the online virtual world, is holding its first worldwide Habbowood Digital Movie Awards. Using the MovieMaker tool, filmmakers are encouraged to create animated movies. The top film in Habbo.com will be entered into the “worldwide” competition where it will go up against the top films from 18 other Habbo communities. [...]

Apple Giving iPhone Customers $100
Apple is giving $100 to all iPhone customers that purchased the device before the price was cut by $200. Any customer that bought the iPhone and did not receive a rebate or other consideration of any kind is eligible for the $100 credit from Apple. This has all been stated in a letter [...]

Ruckus: Free and Legal Music for College Students
Ruckus, the ad-supported music download service for college students has reached a few milestones and introduced some new features that should make things easier for college students seeking free songs.With business growing, Ruckus has reached an average of 20 million downloads per month. It’s also noted that the service is used by students on [...]

TicketLeap Offers Facebook Application for Events
TicketLeap, the ticket-selling service enabling you to sell tickets for your own events, has launched a Facebook application. This app really acts as an extension of your own TicketLeap account, and existing TicketLeap vendors can also take advantage of the Facebook application to offer ticket-selling options to Facebook users. This app is also [...]

Neilsen Study Puts Obama on Top for Presidential Candidate Support
According to a recent Nielsen report, Barack Obama is leading all presidential candidates in terms of visitors to campaign websites, both for Democrats and Republicans. With 717,00 unique visitors in July, Obama was ahead of Hillary Clinton and John Edwards, who both had less than 450,000 unique visitors for the same month. [...]

ExpoTVs New Ad Program Gives Your Videos to Marketers
Tremor Media, an online video advertising network, is partnering with ExpoTV, a video product review network, to offer advertising options for marketers looking to leverage user-generated content.This new model operates by allowing users’ video reviews to be embedded into ad units so advertisers can incorporate these user-generated product reviews into their own marketing campaign. [...]

New Yahoo Messenger Version Release Works Better on Macs
Yahoo Messenger has added a few new features to its service with today’s beta release of its latest version.New tabbed instant messenger windows lets you have multiple conversations take place within one window, with each conversation appearing under its own tab. Individual tabs can be dragged out in order to make it into its [...]

Marie Digby Caught: The New LG15 of Music
Mari Digby is one of those YouTube phenomenons that has become the success story for the 21st century. A girl sitting in her living room with her guitar, singing a cover rendition of a popular R&B song. Then it’s announced that she’s been signed by Hollywood Records, a major label, and continues [...]

Bebos Next Kate Modern is Named Sofia
Looks like Bebo is putting together a regular line up for web series content. A new interactive drama series called “Sofia’s Diary” will air on Bebo this coming fall.The series is from Sony Pictures Television International, and will include daily videos and text updates that will be posted on her Bebo profile. [...]

Google Book Search Adds Personalization Options
Google has added some new features to its Book Search today.With the new features, Google gives you for book results are the ability to add it to your library, write a review, buy it from various online retailers or borrow it from a local library. These are features we see in various networks [...]

Swap Mobile Trading Cards. Win $1000
Atlantic Records has set up a promo for rapper Yung Joc, that’s designed as a trading card collection game to be played on your mobile phone. Users that sign up for this promo will get a trading card sent to their mobile phones every week. These trading cards double as cell phone wallpaper, [...]

Diigo WebSlides Previews at Office 2.0
Diigo, the online research tool for business solutions, is previewing a new browser-based player at the Office 2.0 Conference today. This patent-pending player from Diigo, called WebSlides, lets you create a slide show with web pages. From a collection of bookmarks, you can indicate which web pages you’d like to include for your slide [...]

Zoho Business Launching At Office 2.0 Conference
Zoho will be at the Office 2.0 conference announcing the launch of Zoho Business, a new business-level service for their set of office applications. Initially Zoho Business will be offered in Private Beta and by October, the Beta version should go public.With the inclusion of Zoho Business, the Application section at the Zoho [...]

Coghead Offers Business Apps Verticals
Coghead, the website development tool, is launching Business Essentials, which is a set of pre-built applications for small businesses to replace several aspects of paper-based processes with web-based apps.Included with the plan for small businesses that register for a multi-user account, this set of Business applications focus on asset tracking, basic project management, company directory [...]

WetPaint Launches Templates Verticals
Wetpaint, the wiki creator, has debuted several new site templates to offer high quality options specifically for classrooms, group projects, gamers, weddings, sports teams and more.These new templates have included the tools for each vertical that one may need depending on which template you’ve chosen. So certain modules like blogs, social networks, messages boards, [...]

75+ Email Services That Arent Gmail
Microsoft is pushing its inferior Hotmail product in the Windows Live Installer this week, while Gmail remains our number one choice. But there are plenty more mail services to choose from. Whether you need traditional email, ways to check everything in one place, or just feel like pulling a joke on someone, there’s [...]

Web 2.0 Marketplace Listings for September 6, 2007
Recent ListingsWanted: Talented Developers - Web 2.0 StartupDoes the prospect of building a really cool web service used by millions of people excite you?Do yo… PBS Interactive DepartmentPBS Interactive has a number of key positions open which require not onlyweb/broadband develop… Director, Content ManagementPBS seeks talented candidates for Director, Content Management. Some of the key [...]